White people aren't an abusive father. People need to realize that shit that they didn't do or didn't happen to them are not their problem. Not feeling responsible for the sins of someone else would heal more than pretending you can forgive someone that you don't have the power 2
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I get that it is suppose to be just an analogy, but i think the fact that "black people" and "white people" are groups and not individuals make the whole analogy pretty much nonsense
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For a long time I struggled with how to make sense of the long standing racial tensions. I didn't know how to *process* collective identity at all. I still kind of don't - collective identity feels really nonsensical to me. But it *is* a frame that other people are using, so
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Dang, this is really good! My instinct is to say that there does need to be atonement (it’s originally an invented word for at-one, and we do need to be at one as a country), but I have no inclination as to how that should look.
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lol of course youd be into atonement
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Very nice analogy!
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You might find interesting the book Boomeritis by Ken Wilber: "Wilber characterizes this as the deadly combination of a modern liberal, egalitarian worldview with a deep unquestioned narcissism commonly held by Baby Boomers and their children."
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I think this is extremely good and I hate that I can't say this from my main account
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Excellent post. I agree that people cannot be responsible for the sins of the fathers, but we all need to look at our own hands in how we got here, have those uneasy conversations, and start the understanding of the issue on both sides. Once we have that, then we can heal.
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